Billy the Kid
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Billy the Kid was a notorious 19th-century American outlaw and gunfighter of the Old West, famed for his role in the Lincoln County War and his legendary reputation as a young desperado.
All labels observed (5)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Billy the Kid canonical | 61 |
| Billy the Kid (outlaw) | 1 |
| Billy the Kid became a more widely known outlaw figure | 1 |
| Billy the Kid by Emilio Estevez | 1 |
| Billy the Kid in Young Guns | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T3922743 — resolving that mention is where its identity was fixed. The disambiguator weighed these candidate entities and picked the highlighted one (or “None”, minting a new entity). This is how homonymy is resolved: the same surface form can point to different entities.
NED1
Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Billy the Kid Context triple: [Lincoln Historic District, significantPerson, Billy the Kid]
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A.
Billy the Kid
Billy the Kid is a 1938 ballet by American composer Aaron Copland that evokes the mythic atmosphere of the American Wild West through folk-inspired orchestral music.
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B.
Pat Garrett & Billy the Kid
Pat Garrett & Billy the Kid is a 1973 film soundtrack album by Bob Dylan, notable for featuring the classic song "Knockin' on Heaven's Door."
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C.
Butch Cassidy
Butch Cassidy is an American R&B singer known for his smooth hooks and frequent collaborations with West Coast hip hop artists.
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D.
Wild Bill Hickok
Wild Bill Hickok was a legendary 19th-century American frontiersman, lawman, and gunfighter whose exploits helped define the mythology of the Wild West.
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E.
Gregorio Cortez
Gregorio Cortez is a fictional secret agent and father portrayed by Antonio Banderas in the family action film series "Spy Kids."
- F. None of above. chosen
- G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.
NED2
Entity disambiguation (via description)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Billy the Kid Target entity description: Billy the Kid was a notorious 19th-century American outlaw and gunfighter of the Old West, famed for his role in the Lincoln County War and his legendary reputation as a young desperado.
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A.
Billy the Kid
Billy the Kid is a 1938 ballet by American composer Aaron Copland that evokes the mythic atmosphere of the American Wild West through folk-inspired orchestral music.
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B.
Pat Garrett & Billy the Kid
Pat Garrett & Billy the Kid is a 1973 film soundtrack album by Bob Dylan, notable for featuring the classic song "Knockin' on Heaven's Door."
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C.
Butch Cassidy
Butch Cassidy is an American R&B singer known for his smooth hooks and frequent collaborations with West Coast hip hop artists.
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D.
Wild Bill Hickok
Wild Bill Hickok was a legendary 19th-century American frontiersman, lawman, and gunfighter whose exploits helped define the mythology of the Wild West.
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E.
Gregorio Cortez
Gregorio Cortez is a fictional secret agent and father portrayed by Antonio Banderas in the family action film series "Spy Kids."
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (53)
How these facts were elicited
The pipeline generated the facts above by prompting gpt-5.1 with this entity's name + description and the instruction below.
Instruction
You are a knowledge base construction expert. Given a subject entity and a description of it, return factual statements that you know for the subject as a JSON list of dictionaries(triples), where keys must be "subject", "predicate" and "object". The number of facts may be very high, between 25 to 50 or more, for very popular subjects. For less popular subjects, the number of facts can be very low, like 5 or 10. # Requirements - If you don't know the subject at all, return an empty list. - If the subject is not a named entity, return an empty list. - Include at least one triple where predicate is "instanceOf". - Do not get too wordy. - Separate several objects into multiple triples with one object.
Input
Subject: Billy the Kid Description of subject: Billy the Kid was a notorious 19th-century American outlaw and gunfighter of the Old West, famed for his role in the Lincoln County War and his legendary reputation as a young desperado.
Referenced by (65)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
linked to: Billy the Kid
linked to: Billy the Kid
subject linked to:
The Outlaw (1943 film)
subject linked to:
village of Lincoln, New Mexico
subject linked to:
Lincoln County
subject linked to:
Pat Garrett and Billy the Kid (film)
subject linked to:
“The Open Prairie”
subject linked to:
“Street in a Frontier Town”
subject linked to:
“Prairie Night (Card Game at Night)”
subject linked to:
“Celebration (After Billy’s Capture)”
subject linked to:
“Celebration (After Billy’s Capture)”
subject linked to:
“Celebration (After Billy’s Capture)”
subject linked to:
“Billy’s Death”
subject linked to:
“Billy’s Death”
subject linked to:
Sheriff William J. Brady
subject linked to:
Sheriff William J. Brady
linked to: Billy the Kid